Britney Spears Loses Custody of Children
The news keeps getting worse for pop singer Britney Spears. Earlier today, a California court ordered the pop singer to give up custody of her two children to ex-husband Kevin Federline, effective this Wednesday at noon. Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon ruled that Federline retain custody of the couple’s two sons, Sean Preston and Jayden, “until further order of the court.” The dysfunctional couple had been engaged in a bitter custody battle, with Federline recently asking for 70-30 custody in his favor after the couple had earlier agreed to a 50-50 split. It is unknown what caused Gordon to award Federline full custody, and a transcript of the court proceedings was ordered sealed. Spears and Federline were married for two years before finalizing their divorce this past July.
Last month, Gordon ordered Spears to spend eight hours per week with a “parenting coach” and to take drugs tests twice a week after it became known that she frequently used unspecified drugs. Federline and Spears were also both ordered to avoid alcohol or any non-prescription drugs 12 hours before taking custody of the children, to refrain from any “derogatory remarks” about each other during the case, and to undergo “joint co-parenting counseling.”
The last couple of months have been pretty embarrassing for Spears. Her career is going nowhere as evident by her shaky, lackadaisical and disturbing performance at the MTV Video Music Awards on September 9th. Spears’ former divorce lawyer resigned last month, and her management company recently quit after a month of representation. And now a judge feels that Federline would be a better influence on the couple’s children. Who would have thought it could get this bad for Spears!
